This book describes a journey through a parallel universe of despair, hope and anger to some kind of understanding.
Being Gazza, he'd bought a top-of-therange, big American jobby, and when he drove into the ground everyone was amazed – we'd never seen anything like it. Then he told John that there was some kind of rattle from up on the roof and, ...
Charlton Athletic 2-3 Spurs (King, Mido, Keane). Going 2-0 down to nuisance team Charlton was made worse by scorer Darren Bent taunting the scoreline to the Spurs fans. But his joy was short-lived, as King and Mido brought Spurs level ...
When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published.
We escaped when Peter Baker fouled Ray Charnley and Arthur Kaye missed the spot-kick. Terry Medwin had got back in the team – with Cliffy being clattered by his old Army pal Alex Parker in our opening game and suffering ankle ligament ...
This compelling book tells the inside story of the double-winning campaign through extensive interviews with players, directors, managers and fans.
A fee had been settled and it was now up to me to discuss personal terms with Spurs. ... Mr Nicholson said Spurs had been after me for a long time, since Cyril Knowles had left, and they saw me as their first choice left back.
After the Scots had failed to clear a throw-in from the left by Dave Phillips, Peter Nicholas won the ball, and his low cross was met on the volley by the Manchester United striker, who buried the ball in the left-hand corner of Jim ...
A brilliant winger can have much the same effect on an audience as a singer. You could hear the gasps – the gasps of anticipation, the gasps of stimulation – all around the ground. Matthews was at his peak then with Blackpool and among ...
Douglas took Sheperd's pass and with Bob Reid slipping Dawson was left alone. Douglas made no mistake and put United 2-1 up. Jerry Dawson then saved a penalty following a Tom Bamford handball to keep the Clarets in the game.
... (Mr Peter Storrie) to approach the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur & Athletic Company Limited ('Tottenham') (Mr Daniel Levy) in order to facilitate the transfer to Tottenham of one of Portsmouth's players, Mr Peter Crouch.